Diet and exercise program helps obese teens lose weight
A yearlong plan combines 600 to 800 calorie days for 30 weeks with a 1200 calorie follow up, gradual exercise, and behavior changes. Researchers say weight loss improves social life, grades, self esteem, and lowers cholesterol while reducing future obesity risks. Parental support and education are key, say experts.
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Toronto
Robert Suskind
Louisiana State University
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
U.S
Suskind
William Dietz
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston
Melinda S. Sothern
Sothern
Family approach to healthier meals for overweight children
Melinda Sothemn of Louisiana State University urges families to involve every member in healthier eating beyond the overweight child. Encourage activity with backyard play and signups for dance or sports. Swap high fat items for fresh fruit rice cakes low fat yogurt bagels and light popcorn. Monitor portion sizes when preparing meals.
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Melinda Sothemn
Louisiana State University
Gorilla trackers face perilous journey home in Zaire
United Nations suspended refugee repatriation after Hutu extremists mobbed 25 gorilla trackers and their families near Rugari 27 miles north of Goma. One tracker nearly killed as others fled into banana groves. The group planned to return to Karisoke in Rwanda, near Dian Fossey’s station.
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RuGari
Zaire
United Nations
Goma
U.N
Karisoke Research Center
Rwanda
Dian Fossey
U.S
Leonidas Manyantarama
Munyantarama
Detective sniffs out nuclear materials in Germany lab
Lothar Koch, head of nuclear chemistry at the European Trans-Uranium Institute, examines a May lead jar containing 6 grams of 99.8 percent pure plutonium with tiny gallium amounts. He calls it a potentially weapon‑grade mix but notes later samples show 87 percent plutonium from Moscow via a Munich delivery, not warhead production.
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Karlsruhe
Germany
Lothar Koch
Koch
European Trans-Uranium Institute
U.S
Russia
Adolf Jackle
Iraq
North Korea
Moscow
Munich
Lufthansa
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